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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828520103321

Autore

Scruton Roger

Titolo

The Roger Scruton reader / / compiled, edited and with an introduction by Mark Dooley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-282-87371-7

9786612873713

1-4411-2730-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

320.11

Soggetti

Philosophy

Political science - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: A Philosophy of Love; Section 1: Conservatism; Section 2: The Nation; Section 3: Sex and the Sacred; Section 4: Culture; Section 5: Homecomings; Suggestions for Further Reading; A Bibliography of Roger Scruton's Books 1974-2009; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Roger Scruton Reader is the first comprehensive collection of Scruton`s writings, spanning a period of thirty years. It gathers selections from some of his earliest works such as The Aesthetics of Architecture (1979) to his most recent Culture Counts(2007). The book also includes a good number of unpublished essays. It is made up of five sections- the last section of all contains some of Scruton`s most pugilistic pieces on Dawkins and on The Iraq War. Scruton holds Burkean political views and his book The Meaning of Conservatism was a response to the growth of liberalism in the Conservativ